Cultural Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction and Overview

Cultural Neuroscience: A Historical Introduction and Overview

The integration of cognitive neuroscience with the study of culture emerged from independent ascensions among both fields in the early 1990s. This marriage of the two previously unconnected areas of inquiry has generated a variety of empirical and theoretical works that have provided unique insights to both partners that might have otherwise gone overlooked. Here, I provide a brief historical i...

Historical introduction, overview, and reproductive biology of the protochordates1

This issue of the Canadian Journal of Zoology exhaustively reviews most major aspects of protochordate biology by specialists in their fields. Protochordates are members of two deuterostome phyla that are exclusively marine. The Hemichordata, with solitary enteropneusts and colonial pterobranchs, share a ciliated larva with echinoderms and appear to be closely related, but they also have many c...

Computer-Aided Control Systems Design: Introduction and Historical Overview

Computer-aided control system design (CACSD) encompasses a broad range of methods, tools and technologies for system modelling, control system synthesis and tuning, dynamic system analysis and simulation, as well as validation and verification. The domain of CACSD enlarged progressively over decades from simple collections of algorithms and programs for control system analysis and synthesis, to...

Introduction: Acknowledging Language in the Cultural-Historical Framework

Cultural-historical psychology as it was developed in the 1930s by L.S. Vygotsky, A.N. Leont’ev, and A.R. Luria addresses the psychological development and dy’namics of the societal individual. This approach understands the individual mind and psyche in relation to forms of social activity in common practices. As proposed by the theory of activity (e.g. Leont’ev 1978), human activity typically ...

A. Introduction and Overview